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To create a successful story, you should be able to explain it in a single sentence. Example: Geeky teenager gets bitten by radio-active spider, and gains super hero powers.

With this in mind, we are asking our audience to help decide the title and summary of our upcoming Toon Boom DVD – Anatomy of a Animation Short

The Choices:

CONNERY DOES IT BETTER: Two men in a bar have a drunken conversation that Sean Connery could be swapped in for Samuel Jackson in any movie.

OR

BEAVER COLA: A parody soda commercial shows the fact that the “natural flavoring” from some of vanilla, or raspberry, sodas really comes from a beavers anal gland.
(not to be confused with Canada’s Beaver Soda, the soda in our parody is fake… the additive is gross, but very real)

Once the idea is picked, the DVD will show : how scripts were written, storyboarding, character design, voice & foley recording, animation, distribution & marketing with the help of companies like Blogging Buddha, and more. click here for further info on marketing.

So cast your vote today, there are lead generation opportunities all over the place if you just remember to always be prospecting. We will announce the winning title, and start our fundraiser via Indie GoGo for the DVD on February 15.

In this Toon Boom Animate tutorial DVD: Anatomy of a 30sec Short Vol. 2 – Using Toon Boom Animate, which will be available as a download, we take you step by step on how each part of the animation was done, from animatics, to head turns and eye blinks, animating the time elements like the clock, calendar, and hour glass, and last but not least creating cut out puppets. […]

Hello All,
First and foremost thank you again for supporting Tonyteach’s project, Beaver Cola.
Our initial estimated time of delivery on ALL digital files was today, April 9th. However, due to some unforeseen issues, some of them **technical, all digital files will be emailed out on Monday, April 16th 2012. Physical files will be mailed out April 16th as well.

We do apologize for the delay.

Thanks Tony

**technical issues: we inadvertently recorded a section of the tutorials, only to notice later half the sound was missing. The error has since been corrected, and re-recorded. Ironically, the section of the tutorials that had errors with sound… was the Sound portion of the DVD

The fix we did to make our tutorial recording work will not be on the DVD, as this problem was one with screencasting a tutorial, and not one dealing with animation.

Why Beaver Cola?,

Some people look at the name and assume we’re doing it as a double-entendre gag. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Since the software I am using Toon Boom Animate is marketed for professionals, IMHO I felt we could go a little more risque with subject and script, aka “You bet my sweet ass it’s good”. If we were using Toon Boom Studio, which sometimes has a much younger audience, I would have gone more age appropriate.

The original idea for our 30-second short was to develop a commercial about two guys in a bar arguing that Sean Connery could easily replace Samuel L. Jackson in any of Jackson’s movies. We would then cut to parody movie scenes inspired by “Pulp Fiction,” “Snakes on a Plane”, etc., with our satirical versions . . . “Connery Fiction,” “Connery on a Plane,” and so on.

So, why Beaver Cola?

When we came across an article in Men’s Health Magazine (Rodale Publishing), “The 15 Grossest Things You’re Eating,” #7 immediately caught our attention and changed the entire direction of our campaign trying to focus on better natural products and drinks like Patriot greens. It was castoreum, the juice from a male beaver’s anal gland. For the past 80 years it’s been used as an additive in cigarettes, perfumes and, yes, food […]

Beaver Cola UPDATE: So one part of the creative process that few people talk about – What to do when ALL of your like-minded, creative, individuals cancel on you hours before helping you work on a project. Bottom line, don’t expect the worst, but you do need to plan for it. Remember, the one person that HAS TO show up to your events, is you – so be there, mind, body, and spirit.

That being said, one of my favorite musicians is Prince – but very few people know why. One of the first albums (yes albums) I saw of his was “1999“. In the credits was written “All songs written, arranged, produced, and performed by Prince.”

Creative people are often busy, creative volunteers are even busier – Ship happens, but always be prepared to pilot your boat with, or without a crew.

So in closing, this has added another chapter to our DVD, depending on my mood, and graphic designer, it will be called “Do it Your Damn Self”, or “Animation Army of One.”

Hey this is Tony Ross for tonyteach.com, and first and foremost I want to thank everyone for helping support our project Anatomy of a 30second short, aka Beaver Cola. We’ve been getting a lot of good feedback, and we do appreciate it.

We only have a few days left on the campaign, and currently we are just shy of making $300 towards our initial goal of $1000.
That being said, we have decided to add a $5 perk. Now don’t panic, anyone who has pledged $5 or above will automatically get this perk.

So what’s the perk?

At tonyteach, we show all of our FREE tutorials at a low resolution of 640×360, but we also give you the option of downloading the 1280×720 HD version for as low as $1.

Our new membership level will allow users to download the HD versions of our FREE tutorials for just $2.95 per month. We try and release at least 6 tutorials per month, so that’s about a 50% savings.

Now, back to the perk

If you donate just $5 or above, we will give you tonyteach’s HD membership access for a full year! Now the regular $2.95 per month rounds out to about $35 – so at $5 for a year?? That’s over an 80% discount!!

We are limiting this perk to the first 150 people that sign up for it, as that will give us enough funds to meet our $1000 goal

Here is an excerpt from tonyteach’s upcoming DVD, Anatomy of a 30 second Short (aka Beaver Cola) www.beavercola.com. In this excerpt, I am working with voice artist Demarcus Hill, and also discussing the feel of music we’ll need. I also make a rare, cameo appearance on camera 🙂 Order your DVD now @ www.indiegogo.com/toonboomdvd

Hey Campers, my NEW DVD Anatomy of a 30sec Short: Creating Animation from Concept to Finish (using Toon Boom Animate), aka Beaver Cola, has just launched on Indie GoGo! You can pre-order the 3+ hour download for just $1 !!http://www.tonyteach.com/toonboomdvd

I have been a graphic designer for more than 10 years and decided it was time to take the plunge into web design by taking some of Tony's classes. I must admit Web Design was very frightening to me, but Tony made it easy to understand and showed me how to keep things simple and still make really cool things happen in Flash. Since taking these classes Tony has always been available and helpful when I've had a question on how to do something which is an absolute incredible asset to have in a teacher. I would highly recommend Tony's classes to anyone who wants to learn what Flash can do - I think you'll be surprised how easy he makes it and yet how thorough his lessons are. I can assure you that I will definitely be taking more classes from Tony int the future.

Tanya W.

The class was great. First, when he started , I was wondering what he is talking about? Then I realized that he was talking about Flash ( new version, last version ... etc..). I learnt new things I haven't know it before about the Flash. Flash is very difficult, but he explained the basics things in good way. He was a wonderful teacher. Thanks for the Explanation. Thanks for every things.

Maryamy

Tony just doesnt teach you how to operate flash, but all the little tricks, the nitty-gritty details that animators should know.

Angela D.

I'm a high school multimedia and video technology teacher. This year we received Adobe Design Premium CS4 right in the middle of the school year, so NONE of our old lessons matched the new software. When struggling through a few lessons I contacted Tony Ross for some help. I not only got amazing interactive feedback about the issues within the project files, but I was able to share the video feedback with my students and they could make the corrections themselves. I was really able to show my students just how amazing technology is and how the answers are out there. Tony Ross was VERY helpful and his FLASH tutorials really covered basic skills that my students need to learn the software. We completed several of his tutorials and shared them with other teachers in the district. The students were able to work at their own pace and help each other...I was able to be more of a facilitator in the classroom providing guidance as they completed the project independently. GREAT lessons!

Kim M.

Tony was an excellent teacher. I learned so much and am eager to make more Flash animations. He also gave me insight to some amazing sites i would have never came across on my own. I enjoyed this class very much and feel that I would have never got the information I received in another class.

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